2008-04-07 Erven Rohou <erven.rohou@st.com>

[mono.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index d7eb80526448c82b1a3e9eb87677d38fce222261..d4f3e921c67aa8807f6efbeabc2a73922d77aa7c 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ This is Mono.
                make
                make install
 
-       Mono supports a JIT engine on x86, SPARC, SPARCv9, S/390, AMD64, ARM
-       and PowerPC systems.
+       Mono supports a JIT engine on x86, SPARC, SPARCv9, S/390,
+       S/390x, AMD64, ARM and PowerPC systems.   
 
        If you obtained this as a snapshot, you will need an existing
        Mono installation.  To upgrade your installation, unpack both
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ This is Mono.
        also try passing EXTERNAL_MCS=false on the make command-line.
 
        Testing and Installation
-        ------------------------
+       ------------------------
 
        You can run (part of) the mono and mcs testsuites with the command:
 
@@ -264,6 +264,19 @@ This is Mono.
                Whether you want to build libraries that are still not
                completed (The 2.0 APIs).   It defaults to `yes'.
 
+       --with-moonlight=yes,no
+
+               Whether you want to generate the Silverlight/Moonlight
+               libraries and toolchain in addition to the default
+               (1.1 and 2.0 APIs).
+
+               This will produce the `smcs' compiler which will reference
+               the Silvelright modified assemblies (mscorlib.dll,
+               System.dll, System.Code.dll and System.Xml.Core.dll) and turn
+               on the LINQ extensions for the compiler.
+
+               This option defaults to `no' and it is considered pre-alpha.
+
        --with-libgdiplus=installed,sibling,<path>
 
                This is used to configure where should Mono look for
@@ -279,6 +292,16 @@ This is Mono.
 
                Or you can specify a path to a libgdiplus.
 
+       --disable-shared-memory 
+
+               Use this option to disable the use of shared memory in
+               Mono (this is equivalent to setting the MONO_DISABLE_SHM
+               environment variable, although this removes the feature
+               completely).
+
+               Disabling the shared memory support will disable certain
+               features like cross-process named mutexes.
+
        --enable-minimal=LIST
 
                Use this feature to specify optional runtime
@@ -402,6 +425,11 @@ This is Mono.
 
                Manual pages for the various Mono commands and programs.
 
+       samples/
+
+               Some simple sample programs on uses of the Mono
+               runtime as an embedded library.   
+
        scripts/
 
                Scripts used to invoke Mono and the corresponding program.
@@ -411,3 +439,9 @@ This is Mono.
                A directory that contains the Makefiles that link the
                mono/ and mcs/ build systems.
 
+       ../olive/
+
+               If the directory ../olive is present (as an
+               independent checkout) from the Mono module, that
+               directory is automatically configured to share the
+               same prefix than this module gets.